iancanton wrote:lithuania is the biggest country by area, has the largest population and is economically the most important. however, it has the fewest regions on the map!
the orange bonus zone, in particular, is rather annoying because it's shape is like a railway line and someone who holds yellow must pass through it. is it possible to add 5 to 10 more regions to lithuania (which ought to have at least one-third of the regions on the map because of its relative importance), then group them into bonus regions in a more sensible way for gameplay?
iancanton wrote:latvia is split into far too many regions. it's not good for the most difficult bonus to be the middle one of three, since it forces players to rush to the edges of the map. try cutting latvia to perhaps 2 bonus zones of 5 or 6 regions each (or 3 zones of 4 regions each).
Scania N113 wrote:I have tried hard to reduce the bonus a player gets for holding Latvia, and the method is to add impassables.
the impassables are a definite improvement on the original; i can see them being adjusted bit by bit as progress is made on the map. i'd certainly like some of the latvia regions to be merged with each other: if the most difficult bonuses are in the middle of the map, then players at the top and bottom will have a big advantage in multiplayer games.
if u split some regions of lithuania and merge some of latvia, then the overall size of the map can remain the same.
in the first post, can u state the total number of regions and update this number if it changes?
ian.
